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Meaning of apothegmatize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To utter apothegms (short witty sayings).

intransitive

Examples

“This occurs with the stylization of the impasse of reflexive consciousness, of the movement of the mind that we can call A therefore not-A and that Beckett apothegmatizes in the phrase "imagination dead imagine" and elsewhere explicates as "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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